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Comprehensive List Of Minnesota Vikings Arrests

This chart by Reddit user Mario Wolf illustrates NFL arrests by team since 2000 and has been making the Internet rounds lately; it shows that the Minnesota Vikings are tied with the Cincinnati Bengals for most in the league with 40. The chart was brought to my attention by Minnesota Vikings Chatter Monika Melsha (thanks, Monika!).

The top chart, however, is very deceiving in that it does not reflect the current state of the team at all. The last arrest of a Vikings player, for example, occurred just over a year ago when Adrian Peterson was arrested in a nightclub in Houston for what proved to be trumped up resisting arrest charges that were ultimately dropped. (Updated January 2, 2014.)

In order to provide a fuller picture, therefore, in addition to the Vikings arrests since 2000, courtesy of the NFL Arrests Database, I’ve compiled all the arrests of Vikings players I could find beyond 2000.

This is by no means a comprehensive list, just those that I could find that were verified by media reports. And this list only includes arrests of players who were Vikings at the time they were arrested. For example, as I was researching this, I thought to myself Joe Kapp had to have been arrested and sure enough, he was, for public drunkenness, but he wasn’t on the team at the time, so Kapp doesn’t make the list.

If you know of any that are not on this list, please include them in the comments along with a link to your source for verification. Without further ado, then: